BLACK /RED/ GOLD translated by ...

BLACK /RED/ GOLD

translated by way of Rosmarie Waldrop


everybody wants to contend with language, my mother
over the flag
to my Heimat i'm suppos to betray
vocabulary rags
the Rhine i've poisoned from
looking at it
and i bloom for a dark i have not
benighted
with unoccupied hands i have divided
this land
cur its coat of arms of
bear and eagle and

how do i know the name Germany?
the fish was wrapped in a newspaper

author of poems essayist, dramatist, anthologist, and translator Gerhard Falkner was born 1951 in Schwabach, Germany. After many changes of residence, including a period